Alfred Cortot - Greatest Interpreter of Chopin

"He looked for the opium in music" Rare videos! Chopin - L'Adieu Robert Schumann - Der Dichter Spricht

Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era, one whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation."

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